Azul Zing 15.09 enhances Cassandra and Docker

First Published 20th October 2015

Scott Sellers, Azul Systems

"We are particularly enthusiastic about the optimizations made for Apache Cassandra, beating legacy JVMs on throughput by up to 25% and slashing worst-case latencies by up to 50x."

Sunnyvale, California - Azul Systems,
the provider of Java runtime solutions, has announced the general
availability of Zing release 15.09. This new release of Zing,
Azul's scalable Java Virtual Machine includes specific
optimizations for Apache Cassandra deployments and other
performance enhancements. Zing 15.09 also adds full support for
Docker, enabling the benefits of Docker portability and
deployment flexibility combined with Zing's pauseless operation
for Java applications. Azul also announced the availability of
images on Amazon AWS integrating Zing 15.09 with Linux
distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux
and Ubuntu.

"Like many Java-based applications, the performance and latency
profile of Apache Cassandra can be impacted by Java garbage
collection and other Java runtime issues," said Matt Aslett,
research director, data platforms and analytics, 451 Research.
"Azul's Zing JVM provides a compelling alternative to the
constant performance tuning and complex workarounds required with
other JVMs."

Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul Systems, said: "We are pleased to
announce Zing release 15.09, which has many improvements in
performance and full support for Docker containers. This new Zing
release shows significant performance improvements for many Java
applications, and we are particularly enthusiastic about the
optimizations made for Apache Cassandra, beating legacy JVMs on
throughput by up to 25% and slashing worst-case latencies by up
to 50x. By providing the industry's best Java runtime for
Cassandra plus more flexible development and deployment options
via Docker, we continue to extend our lead with Zing where
stable, predictable Java performance is essential."